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DigiCo D5T Console Choice for New York's Acme Sound Partners
Autograph A2D, the US distributor of the D5T, the theatre version of DiGiCo's D5, has supplied further consoles to this market. Two systems, have now been delivered for Broadway's latest premieres, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Spamalot, both designed by Acme Sound Partners and are both opening this coming March.
The D5T mixing consoles have been purchased by separate New York based rental companies, who are also supplying full sound and communication systems to the individual shows. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is being supplied by Sound Associates, while Spamalot has chosen ProMix as the rental provider. Each of these systems comprising a D5T together with D5TC operators console & a D5T-RE redundant engine, giving fully switchable backup should the need arise.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels debuted at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego last Autumn, before moving to New York's Imperial Theatre for its Broadway premier on 3rd March 2005.Based on the 1988 film that stared Michael Caine and Steve Martin, it is set on the French Riviera, where two con men meet and decide that the town isn't big enough for both of them. They agree to a contest and a hilarious battle makes for a very entertaining evening.
Spamalot, a new musical lovingly written by Eric Idle, from the motion picture Monty Python and the Holy Grail, initially opened at the Shubert Theatre in Chicago and will preview at Broadway's Shubert Theatre in mid February before opening on 17th March 2005.The Chicago run was extended because the box office was sold out before the run began.
Nevin Steinberg explains how Acme Sound Partners came to specify the DiGiCo D5T's for both these shows. “We had attended a few D5T demonstrations in New York and Mark Menard, who has a long standing relationship with Autograph, had worked with Andrew Bruce on the 2004 refit of Les Miserables in London, the first show to utilise a D5T. Mark reported back on the excellent sound quality and flexibility of the software, and that's when we decided to specify it for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. I travelled to London myself and spent five days at Autograph while Andrew and his team prepared for Mary Poppins. They took me through the hardware and software set-up process on the forthcoming Poppins console, which was an enormous leg up for us on Scoundrels and a big confidence boost going into production. By this time Acme was convinced that the D5T was also the right console for Spamalot.”
Lew Meade,A2D's US director, is very pleased with the way in which the US theatre market and its designers have so quickly embraced the D5T's technology. As an ex-rental company proprietor, he is also very aware how this console would also excite producers with its much smaller footprint, returning to them a significant number of saleable seats. “I am thrilled that the Designers and the Theatrical audio rental companies have so easily adapted to the digital technology and have seen the immeasurable benefits that the DiGiCo D5T and its family of products can offer.”
9th February 2005
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